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At the Abu Dhabi Combat Championship in 2013, two of the world’s best grapplers squared off in Bejing, China. Gracie was a very well-known grappler coming from the famed family, but Tonnon was mostly an unknown at the time. Gracie would win the match and solidify himself as one of the world’s best, but it was Tonnon who announced himself to the world as also one of the world’s best. Roy Billington of Bloody Elbow recently looked back at this epic grappling match:
The match began how many had expected, with Kron in control. Kron took Tonon’s back with grace and eventually mounted him. It was at this point that Kron locked up a tight armbar, a tap out seemed inevitable, most men would have tapped in agony but Garry Tonon is a different animal. Not only did Tonon survive he came back, got on top of Kron and took his back, for minutes it looked like Kron was defeated but Kron came back from oblivion.
With one minute left, Kron Gracie reversed the situation, got on top of Tonon, took his back but this time Kron wasn’t letting Tonon escape. With only seconds to spare Tonon tapped to a tight rear-naked choke. On that night in Beijing, Kron Gracie overcame the most unbelievable amount of adversity to pull of the win and cement his burgeoning legacy en-route to winning gold later that day.
source: bloodyelbow.com
ABOUT ADCC
The competition was created by Sheik Tahnoon Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the son of the former United Arab Emirates president Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, together with his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor Nelson Monteiro. Royler Gracie characterized this as the beginning of “the modern era of submission grappling”.
Thousands of Submission grappling tournaments around the world use elements of the ADCC format and rule structure. To date, the great majority of ADCC champions have had experience studying the art of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, whose rules are the most similar to.[1] However, there have been notable exceptions to this, such as Japanese Sanae Kikuta (Judo/Shoot Wrestling), South African Mark Robinson (who was a champion in judo, Greco-Roman and Freestyle wrestling, Sumo, and power lifting), and American Mark Kerr (Collegiate/Freestyle Wrestling).
source: wikipedia.com
